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Ian Allan12 Ethel Street, Birmingham B2 4BG, 0121-643 2496This specialist bookshop in the heart of Birmingham has enough to satisfy the curiosity of even the most obsessive trainspotter or military enthusiast.

Around the middle of last week I was enjoying a well earned day off by sitting in my living room sipping a cup of tea (two sugars), nibbling on some soda bread (Ormo) and sifting through the increasingly impressive Irish Left Online Document Archive over at The Cedar Lounge Revolution, the contents of which should be essential reading for any left-wing trainspotter out there.

This will appeal to anally-retentive trainspotter types who will derive pleasure from being able to identify all the various snippets – a party trick along the lines of a dog being able to use a tin opener.

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an addiction to heroin and an incomprehensible Glaswegian accent are potential, but not necessary, accessories.

Brainspotting would be magnetic resonance imaging of one kind or another, I imagine. Such as functional imaging (fMRI), where they do things like ask a rat to do a crossword puzzle and map which regions of his little rodent brain light up as he is struggling with 12 down.